1906 The Grey Fairy Book Edited by Andrew Lang / Longmans Green & Co. London / Beautiful Vintage Book of Fairy Tales / Richly Illustrated

A beautiful collection of fairy tales being a vintage book in the highly sought-after coloured fairy books series by Andrew Lang. These are becoming increasingly hard to get hold of. The Grey Fairy Book was originally published in 1900, this copy is from 1906 by Longmans, Green and Co., London. With the striking illustration of a fairy riding an owl on the front. Richly illustrated with many black and white plates, plus numerous illustrations in the text by HJ Ford. In good condition.

Lang had grown up with a love of myths and fables and towards the end of the 1880s he began to collect and publish some of his favourite tales. The Blue Fairy Book, was the result, published in 1889 it met with great critical acclaim. The Red Fairy book appeared in Christmas of the following year. Lang went on to produce a series of twelve collections of fairy tales, published between 1889 and 1910. Each volume is distinguished by its own colour. In all, 437 tales from a broad range of cultures and countries are presented. The Grey Fairy Book includes stories from all over the world including France, Germany and Italy.

Inside the pages are clean and tightly bound with just the occasional faint dark handling mark, and brown blemish. All the beautiful illustrated plates are present as called for. The frontispiece illustration still has the original tissue guard, clean and smart. This copy has not been written in and there are no other markings of previous ownership. All edges are shiny gilt.

The grey cloth covered boards have the ornate gilt decoration to the front and spine. With some mild rubbing and rounding to the cloth on the corners and spine ends. Has a couple of faint light marks to the rear board. The cloth on the spine has tanned mildly in comparison to the front and back. The gilt decoration on the front and spine has remained shiny bright and this is a very attractive edition.

Your antique copy of The Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang will be wrapped with care in tissue and ribbon* and sent well packaged. I am always happy to include a gift card with a message.

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